Faculty Research 1990 - 1999

Effect of carboxypeptidase E deficiency on progastrin processing and gastrin messenger ribonucleic acid expression in mice with the fat mutation.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1997

Keywords

Carboxypeptidases: ge, df, Colon: en, Duodenum: en, Gastrins: ge, me, Gene-Expression, Mice, Mice-Obese, Protein-Precursors: me, RNA-Messenger: me, Stomach: en, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S

First Page

1959

Last Page

1963

JAX Source

Endocrinology 1997 May;138(5):1959-63

Grant

DA04494/DA/NIDA, DA00194/DA/NIDA, CA34196/CA/NCI

Abstract

Proforms of gastrointestinal peptides are cleaved at paired basic residues into intermediate forms. Paired basic residues at the C-terminal then are excised by carboxypeptidases before the peptide is amidated. An obese mouse, called Cpe(fat)/Cpe(fat), has a missense mutation in carboxypeptidase E (CPE) with no pancreatic CPE activity and a reduced processing of pancreatic proinsulin to insulin. The purpose of this study was 1) to look for the presence of CPE in the antrum of the stomach, duodenum, and colon in the Cpe(fat)/Cpe(fat) mouse; 2) to determine whether CPE is involved in the processing of progastrin (Pro-G) to its carboxyl-terminal amidated form; and 3) to determine whether a decrease in amidated gastrin results in an up-regulation of stomach gastrin messenger RNA (mRNA) levels. In Cpe(fat)/Cpe(fat) mice, CPE activity was absent in the antrum and colon. In Cpe(fat)/Cpe(fat) mice, amidated gastrin levels were reduced significantly. Levels of the precursor for amidated gastrin (gastrin-Gly-Arg-Arg) were markedly elevated. Gastrin mRNA levels were increased approximately 2-fold over the levels in Cpe(fat)/Cpe(fat) mice. These results indicate that CPE is needed for processing progastrin to gastrin in the stomach and that amidated gastrin exerts an inhibitory feedback effect on gastrin mRNA levels.

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